Re: array_cat without duplicity

[David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:05:06PM +0100, Ondřej Fafejta wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Postgresql: version 8.1.11
>
> Is there a way to concatenate two arrays without duplicity?
>
> This select return duplicity:
>
> SELECT array_cat(ARRAY[1,2], ARRAY[2,3]);
> array_cat
> -----------
> {1,2,2,3}
>
> I need to get result without duplicity!
> {1,2,3}

Here's a function in SQL that does what you want.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION array_undup(ANYARRAY)
RETURNS ANYARRAY
LANGUAGE SQL
AS $$
SELECT ARRAY(
    SELECT DISTINCT $1[i]
    FROM generate_series(
        array_lower($1,1),
        array_upper($1,1)
    ) AS i
);
$$;

SELECT array_undup(array_cat(ARRAY[1,2], ARRAY[2,3]));
 array_undup 
-------------
 {1,2,3}
(1 row)

Cheers,
David.
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